There’s a joke about “how many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?”

“That’s not funny.”

(The original one was, “5, 1 to do it and 4 to write about it.” But that got the above-mentioned response so often that it got replaced by it.)

Now I’m not bringing this up to accuse feminists of lacking a sense of humor (another post), but rather to focus on feminists as a subset of radicals who take themselves entirely too seriously. Eileen Read, now a columnist for the Huffington Post has an interesting profile which suggests just the kind of earnest “we can save the world” milieu that Caroline Glick’s Latma piece is designed to skewer.

Her response: “that’s not funny” in the current aggressive-progressive mode: that’s racist.

And typically, she misreads the song from start to finish.

If this is what passes for intelligence in the “progressive” community, we’re all in trouble. (HT/Daled Amos)

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‘We Will Slaughter the Jews,’ goes a blatantly racist music video that has had nearly 700,000 views on YouTube.

Its title is, ‘We Con the World,’ sung to the tune of ‘We are the World.’

However, the video’s keffiyah (headscarf) wearing, knife-wielding ‘Arabs’ and other members of the ‘Flotilla Choir’ clearly aren’t Turks or Gazans. They’re Jewish Israelis singing “there’s no people dying” about the Gaza humanitarian-aid flotilla, in which nine people were killed last Monday by Israeli commandos, and many others were shot. A 19-year-old American aboard was shot five times at close range.

The lyrics begin:

There comes a time when we need to make a show
For the world and CNN
There’s no people dying so the best that we can do
Is create the greatest bluff of all

The press office of the Prime Minister of Israel sent this video around the world. Apparently inadvertently, according to spokesman Mark Regev. Regev notes nonetheless that “”I called my kids in to watch it because I thought it was funny. It’s what Israelis feel.”

Clearly not all Israelis, since thousands and thousands of them massed in Tel Aviv today to protest the mess their extreme right-wing government is making of their nation’s image abroad.

“It was not intended for general release,” said a statement from the press office. “The contents of the video in no way represent the official policy of either the Government Press Office or of the State of Israel.”

On her blog, the deputy managing editor of the Jerusalem Post, Caroline Glick, claims credit for the video. I never take Glick-bylined pieces seriously because they’re all the same, since she constantly talks about continuing the occupation of Palestine, trashes Obama (and she is from Chicago!) and is a favorite on the lowest-level of American right-wing tv, like the Laura Ingraham show.

But this is lower than I’ve ever seen someone go who carries a management title at a journalism organization. I’m ashamed to say that Glick and I are both Columbia alums. Even if she hates people of another race or religion and is allowed by her editors to poke fun at them in a tasteless and blatantly racist way, she should be fired for making fun of the dead.

To be a little less polemical, Eileen, if you really care about people who really suffer, and want to oppose the people who make them suffer on purpose, you need to consider the following possibility: your definition of racism makes it impossible to criticize precisely people in the latter category.

Caroline, and all of the rest of us who find that video a bitter sweet-piece of right-on, know what you apparently don’t. That the demopaths they’re spoofing are not “the Palestinian people,” much less the “Arab race,” but a bunch of thugs who present themselves as their “leaders,” but who, in typical pre-modern fashion, exploit their own people.

And when you allow them to dupe you, you enable their oppression.

And when you jump on us for “racism,” you both silence our voice, and impoverish the ability to deal with reality of all those who care about human dignity.

that video was brilliant. Any time someone accurately describes the Islamic point of view a person at Huff Po screams racist. It is mind numbing to have to say this again and again, but if everytime someone articulates an idea that defines a real view coming from a lot of people… and the response is to call someone racist then we sincerely hurt the ability to call out real racism.

If this is what passes for intelligence in the “progressive” community, we’re all in trouble.

That’s what passes for intelligence generally, not just in the progressive community. And we are VERY serious trouble.

Be that as it may, perhaps with even her lobotomic intelligence the song hurts precisely because it hits the nervespot target. It exposes these radicals for what they are and apparently they realize it.

Dear Ellen has naught to say about constant Hamas hate agitprop against Jews and Israel. Nor the Hamas charter, especially Art. 7, which calls for genocide of Jews. Let Ellen object to the Hamas charter. Let her say that she will be pleased to sail on their next blockade breaking ship if they will only change their charter.

She also misread the reference in the statement in the song: “There’s no people dying.” This refers to Gaza, meaning the people of Gaza are not dying of starvation or of Israeli attacks, although certain people in control of Gaza are trying to murder Israeli Jews. It is really rather thick of Ellen not to understand that the reference was to people dying in Gaza, not on the ship.

What is all this talk of the “world” being ‘conned’ or ‘duped’ by the islamofascists and their collegial radical leftist violent agitators? The “world” is willfully coopted and even complicit. And the islamofascists aren’t so clever or sophisticated …they simply have a captive audience. So, where is the con? We have, instead, a Dis-Ease!!!

The “world” is willfully coopted and even complicit. And the islamofascists aren’t so clever or sophisticated …they simply have a captive audience. So, where is the con? We have, instead, a Dis-Ease!!!

That’s true, but many are conned and many are coopted and those who are coopted are doing it not because they like the islamists but because they hate jews. And it’ll be nice to watch what the islamists will do to them when they’ll dominate. So in that sense the coopted are duped too.

However, the video’s keffiyah (headscarf) wearing, knife-wielding ‘Arabs’ and other members of the ‘Flotilla Choir’ clearly aren’t Turks or Gazans. They’re Jewish Israelis

Hey, wait a minute!

Why does it matter that they are Israeli Jews?
Would it make a difference if other non-Arabs and non-Turks had made the video?
In fact, would it have made a difference if Arabs and Turks had made this video?

Looks like Eileen Read’s text is racist according to the left’s own standards!

One of the female singers in the video looks the part of the politically committed left wing chick. (We refer to them as ‘mung beans’ here in Australia regardless of sex.) I think she knows it too and and ‘enhanced’ her appearance by lack of makeup. It added greatly to the humor for me. By appearance she is just the sort you would select from central casting to play Ms Read.

But this is lower than I’ve ever seen someone go who carries a management title at a journalism organization.

Uh oh. Leftist High Dudgeon. Lower? It’s just a video, apparently a good one.

I’m ashamed to say that Glick and I are both Columbia alums.

Awwww….

Even if she hates people of another race or religion

projection..

“and is allowed by her editors to poke fun at them in a tasteless and blatantly racist way, she should be fired for making fun of the dead.”

This drama queen act is reminiscent of the reaction to the embarcation videos. It is also evidence of their anti-Semitism, though they do not know it. The motif of the Jew that is always and must be wrong is an old motif. Conceding even one negative against the Arab other is an ideological threat to the anti-Semite.

They will lash out and demand the realization of another anti-Semitic theme, Jew as breaker of the Holy/UN Law, subject to the Jew on perpetual trial.

Don’t those who compare live palestinian Arabs to dead Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto or elsewhere also make fun fun of the dead??

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Is Carolyn Glick obliged to flatter and fawn over Obama just because both supposedly come from Chicago? Great logic there.

re #23, true enough that the performers in the video are Israeli Jews. But can Ellen tell the difference? How does Ellen know what an Arab or a Turk or an Israeli Jew looks like? Is there such a blatant difference between them in appearance? I confess that an ethnic Arab shipmate of mine [on an American ship] once asked me if I were a Turk. Maybe it was because of my mustache at the time.

On other occasions I have been taken for an Arab by Arabs. Maybe Ellen has a scientific ethnic detector. If so, she would be putting all of you guys to shame.

Youtube does not “have to puti up again” unless we create a big uproar about it. Their reason for pulling the video (potential copyright violation) so clearly does not apply (the video is obviously “fair use” under US law) that Youtube’s actions reveal more about its anti-Israel stance than its dedication to copyright law.

Has it pulled any other video parodying the same song? Or even just the politically, anti-Israel motivated videos that parody the same song.